Recent Discussions

Discussion published by Elizabeth Dillenburg on Monday, April 22, 2019

ANN: Reminder! Prize: Center for Austrian Studies 2019 Dissertation Award--Deadline May 31, 2019

The Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota is holding its competition for the 2019 Dissertation Prize.

To be eligible for the 2019 competition, a dissertation must have been defended between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2018. Authors must be citizens or legal residents (holders of “green cards”) of the United States or Canada. Eligible works should deal with Central Europe, including the successor states of the Habsburg Empire, and may be from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, or the arts.  The language of the dissertation must be English.

Discussion published by Chris Fojtik on Monday, April 22, 2019

ANN: H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 15 April - 22 April 2019

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 15 April 2019 to 22 April 2019.  These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-German.  See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.  To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.



EUROPEAN HISTORY / STUDIES

Discussion published by Mark Cole on Friday, April 12, 2019

CFP: Crossing Over Symposium: Place and Belonging

8th Crossing Over Symposium

Cleveland State University

October 4-5, 2019

 

Place and Belonging!

*Cultural Borders*Political Borders*Educational Borders*Religious Borders*International Borders*Intranational Borders*Linguistic Borders*Gender Borders*Ideological Borders*Age Borders*Tribal Borders*Social Class Borders*Identity Borders*Neighborhood Borders*

Peace Studies, Conflicts, Encounters, Resolutions, Identity, US-Mexico Border, Mixed Race Studies, Africana/African American Studies, Latino Studies, Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Arab/Muslim World.

Discussion published by Janin Afken on Friday, April 12, 2019

CFP: Jewish and Queer Interactions in Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine/Israel (1870-1960) (Deadline: 30th June 2019)

This is a call for papers dealing with the similarities, differences, and entanglements of queer and Jewish migration experiences and their ideological and cultural dimensions, as well as antisemitic and homo-/transphobic narratives of Jewish and/or queer ‘unrootedness’. Accepted papers will be published as a collection of essays after the conference.

Discussion published by Silke Pasewalck on Wednesday, April 10, 2019

CFP: Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE) / Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe

Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.

Type: 
Call for Papers
Date: 
May 31, 2019

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Recent Reviews

Review published on Friday, October 19, 2018
Author: 
Lisa Pine, ed.
Reviewer: 
Nathan Stoltzfus

Stoltzfus on Pine, 'Life and Times in Nazi Germany'

Lisa Pine, ed. Life and Times in Nazi Germany. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. 328 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4742-1792-7.

Reviewed by Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University) Published on H-German (October, 2018) Commissioned by David Harrisville (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50613

Review published on Sunday, October 14, 2018
Author: 
Zoë Waxman
Reviewer: 
Laura J. Hilton

Hilton on Waxman, 'Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History'

Zoë Waxman. Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 181 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-960868-3.

Reviewed by Laura J. Hilton (Muskingum University) Published on H-German (October, 2018) Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill

Review published on Friday, September 14, 2018
Author: 
Andrew S. Tompkins
Reviewer: 
Jan-Henrik Meyer

Meyer on Tompkins, 'Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany'

Andrew S. Tompkins. Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. XV, 265 S. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-877905-6; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-182620-7.

Reviewed by Jan-Henrik Meyer Published on H-German (September, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal

Review published on Monday, August 13, 2018
Author: 
Hartmut Berghoff, Jan L. Logemann, Felix Römer, eds.
Reviewer: 
Manuel Schramm

Schramm on Berghoff and Logemann and Römer, 'The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective'

Hartmut Berghoff, Jan L. Logemann, Felix Römer, eds. The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective. London: Oxford University Press, 2017. ix + 371 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-878426-5.

Reviewed by Manuel Schramm (Technische Universität Chemnitz) Published on H-German (August, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal

Review published on Monday, April 2, 2018
Author: 
Sara Lennox
Reviewer: 
Robbie Aitken

Aitken on Lennox, 'Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture'

Sara Lennox. Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. 376 pp. $31.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-231-7.

Reviewed by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center) Published on H-German (April, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal

Review published on Monday, March 26, 2018
Author: 
Jochen Böhler, Robert Gerwarth, eds.
Reviewer: 
Jeff Rutherford

Rutherford on Böhler and Gerwarth, 'The Waffen-SS: A European History'

Jochen Böhler, Robert Gerwarth, eds. The Waffen-SS: A European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xviii + 372 pp. Illustrations. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-879055-6.

Reviewed by Jeff Rutherford (Wheeling Jesuit University) Published on H-German (March, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal

Review published on Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Author: 
Bodie A. Ashton
Reviewer: 
Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski

Rombeck-Jaschinski on Ashton, 'The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871'

Bodie A. Ashton. The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 240 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-00007-0.

Reviewed by Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski (Universität Stuttgart) Published on H-German (February, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50116

Review published on Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Author: 
Noah Benezra Strote
Reviewer: 
Mark Clark

Clark on Strote, 'Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany'

Noah Benezra Strote. Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xii + 357 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21905-0.

Reviewed by Mark Clark (University of Virginia-Wise) Published on H-German (February, 2018) Commissioned by David Harrisville

Review published on Monday, January 22, 2018
Author: 
Janosch Steuwer
Reviewer: 
Kathryn Sederberg

Sederberg on Steuwer, '"Ein Drittes Reich, wie ich es auffasse": Politik, Gesellschaft und privates Leben in Tagebüchern 1933-1939'

Janosch Steuwer. "Ein Drittes Reich, wie ich es auffasse": Politik, Gesellschaft und privates Leben in Tagebüchern 1933-1939. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2017. 611 pp. EUR 49.90 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-8353-3003-0.

Reviewed by Kathryn Sederberg (Kalamazoo College) Published on H-German (January, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50185

Review published on Friday, January 19, 2018
Author: 
John C. Swanson
Reviewer: 
H. Glenn Penny

Penny on Swanson, 'Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary'

John C. Swanson. Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary. Pitt Russian East European Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. 464 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6429-2.

Reviewed by H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa) Published on H-German (January, 2018) Commissioned by David Harrisville

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